# Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship - Hardcover

by **Sarah Ruhl** (Author), **Max Ritvo** (Author)

"I will read more books in my life but I will not love another book more than this one." --**MARY-LOUISE PARKER**

### Author Biography

**Sarah Ruhl** is a playwright, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee, and author of the book _100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write_, which was a _New York Times_ Notable Book of the Year. She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Whiting Writers' Award, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a midcareer playwright, and the Steinberg Award. She is currently on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family. **Max Ritvo** (1990-2016) was the author, with Sarah Ruhl, of _Letters from Max_. He was also the author of two collections of poems, _Four Reincarnations_ and _The Final Voicemails_, which were published by Milkweed Editions in 2016 and 2018. His chapbook, _Aeons_, was chosen by Jean Valentine to receive the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship in 2014. Ritvo's poetry has also appeared in the _New Yorker_ and _Poetry_, among many other publications.

**Number of Pages:** 336

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** September 18, 2018

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